ZAMBO DAILY WIRE

Former president and opposition leader Joseph Estrada walks with Sen. Loren Legarda and Makati City Mayor Jomar Binay at the tarmac of Zamboanga International Airport in this undated photo.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES (J.P. ESPIRITU/10-08-08) - - "We are what we eat." That was rather a seemingly forgotten maxim spoken in ancient times by Ayurveda – an ancient Indian Science of Life – to warn people then to be extra cautious in what they ate and drank. This maxim has valid reason to be uttered once again in these modern times when everybody is threatened by the harmful effects of milk and milk products now found to have been contaminated with dangerous substance called melamine. "As globalization intensifies, as we engage in trade with other countries more and more, as we subsist in food that undergoes more processes and stages of preparation before we consume them, as knowledge, and researches on health advance, there is all the more need for us to be wary for what we take in. We are what we eat," said Senator Loren Legarda. Legarda, chair of the Senate Committee on Economic Affairs, yesterday made the statement as she filed her co-sponsorship of a senate bill